Nathan Cofnas’s “race realism” is pseudoscience
“If there’s someone having a negative impact on science, it is Cofnas, not his critics. ” – Pieter Beck
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“If there’s someone having a negative impact on science, it is Cofnas, not his critics. ” – Pieter Beck
Schneider Shorts 28.08.2026 – racism affair in Ghent explodes in all directions, a German university deals with a Nazi doctor, another German university has been rigging Wikipedia, retractions for scholars in Italy and USA, and finally, a new antibody kerfuffle uncovered.
Schneider Shorts 21.08.2026 – after the racists got their lynching, guess who joins the Jason Arday debate, one Spanish professor and one Canadian professor explain things, and two white men lose papers due to Chinese papermills.
Schneider Shorts 31.07.2026 – trans children abused in Norway, a racist supported in Belgium, a mega-cheater rules English universities, a questionable female role model awarded in USA, with an ill-informed version of how Sage retractions happened, cures for cancer and autism, and finally, you’ll never believe the real reason why fruit and veg are good for you!
“In every respect, their behinds are pampered and any laziness and incompetence are forgiven with a lot of care and understanding.”
Schneider Shorts 30.01.2026 – Daddy’s princess must return to Iran, Japanese professor bribed with brothel visits, retractions for a German sex pest and for Iranian genius in Poland, how racists hacked NIH and how microplastic pollution causes research fraud.
Schneider Shorts 14.11.2025 – undead vampire is dead, Harvard researcher laments grant loss, BMJ concerned about having been duped, with another Italian cheater, a rascist identity thief, a Hungarian multi-professor, and finally, how Springer Nature and Elsevier fight papermill fraud!
Schneider Shorts 13.06.2025 – a buddy network in Manitoba, a young ethics hero in Uppsala, a typical German investigation, retractions for an undead man, two confused open access publishers, and finally, Peven Stinker’s new Nazi adventures.
Schneider Shorts 4.04.2025 – cancer center director in USA and university rector in Austria need to check their papers, Egyptian geniuses recycle a spectrum 12 times, with amazing corrections by ACS and Elsevier, Nazi paper retracted, and finally, a Dutch sexual predator sacked by court order.
Schneider Shorts 7.03.2025 – Royal Society salutes Nazi oligarch, Belgian university uses poverty excuse, Chinese surgeons cure Alzheimer’s, with an untrustworthy Italian biotech, a revised correction, circular plagiarism, even more retractions, an erased paper, and finally, with mice turned into mammoths!
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